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Work-Logs

Work log: Polymathic — March 8, 2026

What shipped today

Newsletter edition 13 went from zero to scheduled in a single session. “Manual fluency is the prerequisite for agent supervision” — the argument that you can’t responsibly delegate what you can’t evaluate — drew heavily …


Work log: Polymathic — March 9, 2026

What shipped today

The four grind issues queued yesterday were all executed and merged today via parallel agents. Each went through the full dev/QA/review loop on its own feature branch with a merged PR — no shortcuts, no manual intervention needed.

The …


Work log: Polymathic — March 10, 2026

What shipped today

A full scout-and-grind cycle cleared five new issues in a single session. The scout pass explored templates, content, and infrastructure in parallel, surfacing issues at every scale — from missing frontmatter fields to dead theme templates to …


Work log: Polymathic — March 11, 2026

What shipped today

Nine issues closed in a single session — the largest batch execution day yet. The session opened with triaging five issues from yesterday’s scout pass, then moved straight into sequential execution. The work fell into three themes: …


Work log: Polymathic — March 12, 2026

What shipped today

A massive cleanup and infrastructure day for the blog. Nine issues closed in a single session, clearing the entire March 2026 milestone and leaving the issue queue nearly empty.

The biggest structural change was the podcast player refactor. …


Work log: Polymathic — March 13, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a cleanup and polish session driven by automated scout findings. After triaging and prepping issues, five fixes shipped — all focused on removing hardcoded values, adding missing metadata, and improving the podcast experience.

The …


Work log: Polymathic — March 14, 2026

What shipped today

Seven issues closed across two themes: convention enforcement and codebase quality.

The biggest change was normalizing date format separators across 106 posts. The project convention specifies ISO 8601 T separators (2026-03-14T09:00:00-05:00), …


Work log: Polymathic — March 15, 2026

What shipped today

A massive cleanup sweep across the newsletter and podcast infrastructure. Nine issues closed in a single session — the kind of day where you fix one thing, discover three more, and just keep going until the foundation is solid.

The podcast …


Work log: Polymathic — March 16, 2026

What shipped today

A cleanup session focused on small but meaningful fixes across search, email signatures, newsletter infrastructure, and the pre-commit hook. Six issues closed, all originating from yesterday’s /scout run.

The search page had a regression …


Work log: Polymathic — March 17, 2026

What shipped today

Newsletter edition 15 (“Most of your infrastructure is decoration”) went out this morning at 11am ET, completing the pipeline that started with staging and test emails in the previous session. During the send, we discovered …